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Date:      Tue, 7 Nov 2000 16:38:31 -0600 (CST)
From:      Lee J Carmichael <lcarmich@wamnet.com>
To:        Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu>
Cc:        mac <mac.list@deam.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: KNE100TX - Ethernetcard
Message-ID:  <Pine.SGI.3.96.1001107163209.14951f-100000@y.cops.wamnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0011071714470.9366-100000@rac4.wam.umd.edu>

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No it isn't. Just because it attempted to guess doesn't mean it was able
to load a driver or attach a device. If it doesn't show up as a network
device it didn't find a driver. Read the device driver code, I bet you
wouldn't find support for that revision of the chip in it. Just like the
AMD chipset I checked over. Basically, it finds a superset for that
chipset but not that particular version so it guesses at detection but
isn't able to anything more. 

Mac: I ran into this on 4.1. 

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Lee Carmichael		WAM!NET Inc.
System Engineer		655 Lone Oak Rd Building E
651-256-5292		Eagan, MN 55121

On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Kenneth Wayne Culver wrote:

> this is wrong... it says "de0:" so that means it IS attaching a device
> driver.
> 
> 
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> 
> On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Lee J Carmichael wrote:
> 
> > Hello Mac,
> > 
> > In my experience, this means that the ethernet card/chipset is detected
> > but that it does not have a driver for it. Basically, you need to search
> > for a driver(or write one) to use the card/chipset. 
> > 
> > --------
> > Lee Carmichael		WAM!NET Inc.
> > System Engineer		655 Lone Oak Rd Building E
> > 651-256-5292		Eagan, MN 55121
> > 
> > On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, mac wrote:
> > 
> > > hi there,
> > > 
> > > i got a really strange problem with this KNE100TX from Kingston:
> > > de0: <Digital 21140A Fast Ethernet> at device 11.0  on pci0
> > > de0: driver is using old-style compatibility shims
> > > 
> > > that's the bootmessage (the dc-driver did not produce any information at
> > > boottime), but i can't attach ip-numbers on it. if a make a ifconfig -a
> > > the device is not listed.
> > > 
> > > die digital-chip on the card says: 21140-AF
> > > 
> > > could someone help me?
> > > 
> > > thanks in advance
> > > mac
> > > 
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